Status of 8.7
* Can we get it out the door?
* What is holding it up?
** Review 8.7 draft TIPs for "must haves"
* At what point do we start back porting features to 8.6 - particular msgcat
New text widget
* status ?
* Brian G look at it before next meeting
Tk 9.0
* Do we need it for breaking changes?
* Remove the cruft (8 bit / 16 bit limits)
* List of changes needed?
Tcl 9.0
* strong support for getting 9.0 out the door from Rolf
** 2Gb string limit
** full unicode support
Discussions:
* Detlef Groth discussed his [pandoc-tcl-filter] work
* Detlef Groth showed how to read and write to python3 and R pipes, code now at the end of [Example of reading and writing to a piped command]
* Steve Huntley discussed [tclmake]
New people introduced:
* Alwyn
* Matthew
* Mark
Questions:
* Alwyn asked about mixing threads and coroutines, resulted in lots of discussion about people using both
Next meeting time:
* The meeting time was seen as helpful for European and America time zone.
* It was considered, that the next meeting may be at a time appropriate for Asian/Australien citizens
****Appreciation****
[HThaO] I wantks to thank Steve Landers for leading the monthly TCL calls. I appreciate.